FTCoE Posts New Podcast in Forensic Advancement Season

The NIJ Forensic Technology Center of Excellence has posted a new podcast in its Just Science series, Just a Paradigm Shift for Forensic Scientists. In this, the eighth episode of the Forensic Advancement season, Just Science interviews Ron Smith, a 45-year veteran of latent print analysis and the current president of Ron Smith and Associates, a Mississippi-based company that provides training, consulting and proficiency testing services to the forensics community. Over the past 30 years, Smith has witnessed a shift in the role of the forensic scientist in the criminal justice system. He believes that being an expert witness, exhibiting fairness and staying current are now the most important parts of being a forensic scientist. Listen in at https://forensiccoe.org/js7-e8/ as he discusses this shift in more detail.